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| - Some of his works are
* "Second Variety" (1953) -- inspired the movie Screamers
* The Man In the High Castle (1963 Hugo Award winner)
* Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) -- basis of the movie Blade Runner
* We Can Remember It for You Wholesale: and Other Classic Stories, an anthology with an introduction by Norman Spinrad (1987) Mr. Dick and Ursula K. Le Guin were high school classmates, although the two did not know each other at the time (according to Wikipedia).
- Dick was tragically killed in 1982 when he was torn apart by a pack of giant red dogs that, ironically, escaped from one of his own hallucinations and shouted "Roog! Roog!" as they fled into the lavender twilight with their bloodsmeared snouts thrust arrogantly into the air.
- Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) is known for his short stories of the 1950's, but was best known for his novels, which feature themes about memory, God, and an eroding sense of reality. More recently, adaptations of his works have been made into feature length films or have influenced them, like Total Recall or Paycheck. He lived in California, where he briefly attended university. Before he began writing science fiction, he worked in a record store, and also in radio. He was married five times and had three children.
- Philip K. Dick or Philip Kindred Dick was an American science fiction novelist, short story writer and essayist whose work has grown in importance since his death in 1982.
- Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982) was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist whose published work is almost entirely in the science fiction genre. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments, and altered states. In his later works Dick's thematic focus strongly reflected his personal interest in metaphysics and theology. He often drew upon his own life experiences in addressing the nature of drug abuse, paranoia,schizophrenia, and transcendental experiences in novels such as A Scanner Darkly.
- In addition to thirty-eight books currently in print, Dick produced a number of short stories and minor works which were published in pulp magazines. At least seven of his stories have been adapted into films. Though hailed during his lifetime by peers such as Stanisław Lem, Robert A. Heinlein and Robert Silverberg, Dick received little general recognition until after his death. Dick occasionally wrote using pen names, most notably Richard Philips and Jack Dowland. He married five times, and had two daughters and a son. All five marriages ended in divorce.
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| - Some of his works are
* "Second Variety" (1953) -- inspired the movie Screamers
* The Man In the High Castle (1963 Hugo Award winner)
* Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) -- basis of the movie Blade Runner
* We Can Remember It for You Wholesale: and Other Classic Stories, an anthology with an introduction by Norman Spinrad (1987) Mr. Dick and Ursula K. Le Guin were high school classmates, although the two did not know each other at the time (according to Wikipedia).
- Dick was tragically killed in 1982 when he was torn apart by a pack of giant red dogs that, ironically, escaped from one of his own hallucinations and shouted "Roog! Roog!" as they fled into the lavender twilight with their bloodsmeared snouts thrust arrogantly into the air.
- Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982) was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist whose published work is almost entirely in the science fiction genre. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments, and altered states. In his later works Dick's thematic focus strongly reflected his personal interest in metaphysics and theology. He often drew upon his own life experiences in addressing the nature of drug abuse, paranoia,schizophrenia, and transcendental experiences in novels such as A Scanner Darkly. The novel The Man in the High Castle bridged the genres of alternate history and science fiction, earning Dick a Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1963. Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, a novel about a celebrity who awakens in a parallel universe where he is unknown, won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel in 1975. "I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards," Dick wrote of these stories. "In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if all of us are real." In addition to 44 published novels, Dick wrote approximately 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime. Although Dick spent most of his career as a writer in near-poverty, ten popular films based on his works have been produced, including Blade Runner, Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly, Minority Report, Paycheck, Next,Screamers, and The Adjustment Bureau. In 2005, Time magazine named Ubik one of the one hundred greatest English-language novels published since 1923. In 2007, Dick became the first science fiction writer to be included in The Library of America series.
- In addition to thirty-eight books currently in print, Dick produced a number of short stories and minor works which were published in pulp magazines. At least seven of his stories have been adapted into films. Though hailed during his lifetime by peers such as Stanisław Lem, Robert A. Heinlein and Robert Silverberg, Dick received little general recognition until after his death. Foreshadowing the cyberpunk sub-genre, Dick brought the anomic world of California to many of his works, drawing upon his own life experiences in novels like A Scanner Darkly. His novels and stories frequently used plot devices such as alternate universes and simulacra, worlds inhabited by common working people, rather than galactic elites. "There are no heroics in Dick's books," Ursula K. LeGuin wrote, "but there are heroes. One is reminded of [Charles] Dickens: what counts is the honesty, constancy, kindness and patience of ordinary people." His acclaimed novel, The Man in the High Castle, bridged the genres of alternate history and science fiction, resulting in a Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1963. Dick chose to write about the people he loved, placing them in fictional worlds where he questioned the reality of ideas and institutions. "In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if all of us are real," Dick wrote. Dick's stories often descend into seemingly surreal fantasies, with characters discovering that their everyday world is an illusion, emanating either from external entities or from the vicissitudes of an unreliable narrator. "All of his work starts with the basic assumption that there cannot be one, single, objective reality," Charles Platt writes. "Everything is a matter of perception. The ground is liable to shift under your feet. A protagonist may find himself living out another person's dream, or he may enter a drug-induced state that actually makes better sense than the real world, or he may cross into a different universe completely." These characteristic themes and the atmosphere of paranoia they generate are sometimes described as "Dickian" or "Phildickian." Dick occasionally wrote using pen names, most notably Richard Philips and Jack Dowland. He married five times, and had two daughters and a son. All five marriages ended in divorce. Philip K. Dick died on March 2, 1982, the result of a combination of recurrent strokes accompanied by heart failure. After his death (he was disconnected from life support on March 2 but his EEG had been isoelectric for five days prior to that), his father Edgar brought his son's body to Fort Morgan, Colorado. When his twin Jane had died, a tombstone had been carved with both of their names on it, and an empty space for Dick's date of death. After fifty-three years, that final date was carved in, and Philip K. Dick was buried beside his sister. The surname Dowland is a reference to the composer John Dowland, who is featured in a number of Dick works. The title Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said is a direct reference to Dowland's best-known composition Flow My Teares. Some protagonists in Dick's short-fiction bear the name Dowland. Dick's short story Orpheus with Clay Feet was one such story published under the pen name Jack Dowland. In the semi-autobiographical novel Valis, the protagonist is called Horselover Fat. Philip, or Phil-Hippos is Greek for Horselover, Dick is German for Fat.
- Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) is known for his short stories of the 1950's, but was best known for his novels, which feature themes about memory, God, and an eroding sense of reality. More recently, adaptations of his works have been made into feature length films or have influenced them, like Total Recall or Paycheck. He lived in California, where he briefly attended university. Before he began writing science fiction, he worked in a record store, and also in radio. He was married five times and had three children.
- Philip K. Dick or Philip Kindred Dick was an American science fiction novelist, short story writer and essayist whose work has grown in importance since his death in 1982.
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